Thursday, November 23, 2017

Romanian

Romanian is a Romance language spoken primarily in Romania and Moldova. Romanian nouns have three genders- masculine, feminine and neutral. Definite articles are suffixed to the end of the noun rather than placed in front. In Spanish the apple is la manzana. In Romania this is marul, which is composed of mar (apple) plus the definite article. Here are the numbers in Romanian from one to ten:

unu
doi
trei
patru
cinci
șase
șapte
opt
nouâ
zece

Unlike in other Romance languages, the word for four begins with a (Spanish quatro and French quatre) and the word for ten begins with a (Spanish diez and French dix). Distinguishing features of Romanian include three genders for nouns and postnominal definite articles. However, the numbers illustrate the similarity of Romanian to other Romance languages.





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